That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 04, 2024

/// Leading family and friends The Betrothed

saunter side-by-side, both brightly clothed.

She wore pink and lime green;

he’s in ultramarine.

(Dull, drab monochromes, each of them loathed.)

French version of ‘The Nightwatch’.

This looks like a slightly out of focus photograph. Detail is amazing.

“On three, let’s moon them and run like the dickens. It’ll be such fun. Ready?”

First day on the job and Bob wore his best suit. So excited to be an Assistant Funeral Director

“Oh, do be careful where you step. It looks like someone buried their dog’s poop in the leaves rather than pick it up. You two up there, did you hear that?”

A really nice landscape, ruined by the intrusion of a tribe of grotesquely bedecked baboons. Unfortunate.

The chaperones quickly learned to keep their distance based on the length of stick he carried.

And she maintained her distance for the same reason! (Sorry. Juvenile jest could not be avoided.)

The designer for the Swedish Bikini Team is more of a minimalist.

Early version of speed dating.

The parents’ original plans/

Aspired to a blending of clans:/

The uniting of fortunes/

Of massive proportions/

Thus they’re followed by legions of “fans”…

Together the couple strode/

Through the park – both attired a la mode -/

He displaying the body/

Of a youthful Greek “goddy”/

Whilst she flaunts the face of a toad..

Louis’s faux pas of wearing brown shoes with a blue outfit quickly drew a crowd of viscous hecklers and ultimately doomed his chances with Adeline.

When I told them we would consummate the marriage in the great outdoors, I thought they would leave us alone.

The inevitable evolution of cosplay.

“Let’s see if we can ditch the chaperones at the next turn and get down to some serious tête à téton…”

Prelude to “Le Dejeuner sur L’herbe”.

Followed by a crowd of her peers, The young lady was almost in tears, But as they walked the path, Her tears turned to wrath, “You promised me Three Musketeers!!”

Which one of them is ‘not bragging’?

Back in the day, before the invention of leaf blowers.

SIR GUY: Why doesn’t your family trust me not to take advantage of you on our walks?

LADY GAL: Who say’s it’s “you” they don’t trust?

Beautiful painting, but it’s cited as 1874; that is certainly not the fashion styles of 1874. Artistic license , I guess.

Morris and Maude on the way to a phallic demonstration.

“For a moment there I thought we were getting lost in the deep woods.”

The Bethrothed: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Marie-François Firmin-Girard" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string 1,604, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3403 (November 4, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

ABBA wore notably outrageous costumes on stage so that they could deduct them as business expenses

I forget whether it was the Czech army in general or just the guards at Prague Palace that shared the designer with Amadeus.

Chasing after the newly wed was a lot slower before cars were invented.

He parades her as if she’s a new toy,

And she isn’t expressing undue joy.

But his family tradition,

is preening and swishin’

- He’s the grandson of Gainsborough’s Blueboy.

Angry mob turns away couple who ignored dress code…..